Caracas FC
Full name	Caracas Fútbol Club
Nickname(s)	Los Rojos
Founded	1984
Ground	Estadio Brígido Iriarte/Cocodrilos Sports Park Caracas, Venezuela
Capacity	20.000/3.000
Chairman	Guillermo Valentiner
Manager	Noel Sanvicente
League	Primera División Venezolana
2005-06	1st
Home colours Away colours

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They are nicknamed Los Rojos del Avila which could be translated as the "Red's from Avila" it is referred to their red jersey and the most important mountain in Caracas, The Avila mountain.

History

In the early 1980s, the team, named Yamaha at that time, played on several amateur championships with success, later in 1984 the team was renamed as Caracas-Yamaha and was introduced to the Venezuelan Professional Football League to participate in the Second Division Championship. Surprisingly the team obtained their ticket to the First Division after winning the Second Division Championship in their first season.

Titles

• Primera División Venezolana: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004.
• Copa República Bolivariana de Venezuela: 2000

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Colors

The club's colors are red and black.

Stadium

Caracas plays their home matches at Cocodrilos Sports Park, which has a maximum capacity of 3,500 people, but will be expanded to 6,000 people, and then to 15,000. The field is composed of artificial grass. Close view from a water-based field hockey artificial turf Modern artificial grass Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a grass-like man-made surface manufactured from synthetic materials. ...

References

• Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Portuguese-language wikipedia article and from the the equivalent French-language wikipedia article (retrieved January 15, 2006).

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External link

• Official website

Primera División Venezolana 2006/07 teams:

Aragua FC | Carabobo FC | Caracas FC | Mineros de Guayana | Monagas SC

Portuguesa FC | Deportivo Táchira FC | Trujillanos FC | Unión Atlético Maracaibo | Zamora FC